Course Code: ELT-366 Credit Hours: 2+0 Year/Semester: 3rd/6th Session: 2014-18

Class Schedule: 08:30am (Thursday & Friday) Class Venue: Lecture Room-8 (Electrical Department)

Course Outline:

Introduction to Cellular Systems, Hata Model, Lee Model, Indoor Propagation Models, Fading, Geometry of Hexagonal Cell, Co-Channel Interference, CCI Reduction Techniques, Cell Splitting, Microcells, Picocells and Fiber-Optic Mobile Systems, Fading Mitigation via Diversity, Components of a GSM Network, Mobile Station, Base Station Subsystem (BSS), the Network and Switching Subsystem (NSS), Operation and Support Subsystem (OSS), Interfaces Power Supply System at Site, the Preventive and Protective maintenance, International Color Coding Scheme, System Outage, System Commissioning, Components of a Microwave Transmission, Communication Ring, Hard Looping.

Recommended Books:

• Data and Computer Communications, 8th Edition - William Stallings